There was no trace of the majesty of a superior on Benny Hoyland's face, and his eyes showed only helplessness from beginning to end.
From the moment Joey gains his trust, he treats Joey as a key development figure.
Joey was always there for the good wine and tea in the office.
"Director, what I'm going to tell you next may involve a lot of things, so you have to be mentally prepared."
Benny Hoyland glanced at Joey with a complicated expression, and did not respond in a hurry. He walked over, gently closed the door, then turned around, nodded solemnly and said: "Go ahead."
There is a tea set in the office that Benny prepared for himself, which is usually used to entertain important people.
Joey took his time pouring water to make tea.
The first words he spoke shocked Benny's expression.
"Actually, I was one of the participants in the previous incidents."
At the same time as these words fell, Joey could even feel that the whole room was enveloped by a restless spiritual factor.
The space of more than ten square meters in the room is blocked. In other words, this place is now completely in Benny's domain. No matter what happens inside, it will not spread outside.
"Don't be so nervous." He spread his hands gently: "Don't worry, I won't run away." As he spoke, he looked at Benny's calm and indifferent face with a trembling look on his face: "And I can't run away in your hands, right? ?"
Benny Hoyland's eyes were cold and his voice was hoarse: "I thought you were the same type of person as me."
Joey sighed softly and said quietly: "Everyone is unique. You have your perseverance, and I have my own heart."
"Director, to be honest, at the beginning, I didn't think you were a good person."
Benny laughed at himself: "I'm not a good person to begin with! Maybe I should have gotten rid of your accident from the beginning, but it's not too late now. I don't know why you chose to confess now." His expression became colder and colder, and he stepped closer to Joey. : "Do you regret it?"
From the moment he was preparing to challenge him, Joey knew that Benny Hoyland was a stubborn person who would rather kill by mistake than let go, but he still embarked on this path without hesitation.
He slowly shook his head: "The decision between good and bad often depends on the position, which is not worth mentioning. From your perspective, you are a good person and I am a bad person. From my perspective, it is not the same."
"It's not us who are wrong, but our position."
There is a teapot on the table, with boiling water gurgling and white smoke rising.
Wash the tea, make the tea, and push the cup in front of Benny.
"There are many ways to solve things, and it's not just about fighting and drinking tea!"
"Your purpose is to revive the sleeping Poseidon, and I just want to find my sister. There is no conflict between the two."
Benny looked down at the steaming tea in the cup and said, "I said that when this matter is over, I will send her back safe and sound. What is the purpose of you doing that?"
"Those are not what I did. I said I was just a participant, not the leader."
"Are there many people?" Benny asked. At this moment, he thought of a lot, guessing that there was a huge organization behind Joey, and ordinary people couldn't get explosives.
"You are wrong, there are only 8 people." Joey looked at Benny with interest, and a slight smile appeared on the corner of his mouth inadvertently: "I don't know if you know about the curse of the dreamland."
Benny's hand holding the tea cup suddenly froze. The curse of the dreamland was not a secret in Leah.
Compared with those gossips and anecdotes, Dreamland is one of the fantasy stories, and there is nothing outstanding about it.
What made him stunned was that Joey mentioned the number '8'.
As the orthodox Poseidon Church, many unknown secrets are recorded in the scriptures.
He looked dull and muttered to himself: "Is a new reincarnation coming again?"
"Reincarnation?" Joey looked at him in astonishment: "You really know this!"
For a moment, Joey felt in a trance how old the Benny in front of him was. The desolate aura on his body became more and more intense. Although he was in his 40s, he had an air of decay and old age.
Benny tapped his fingers on the table and slowly spoke, telling a secret.
"In the era when Poseidon and the Archbishop fell one after another, the Poseidon Church was destroyed several times."
What followed was not much different from what Anne said.
In other words, 8 people solved the Fuldemann-Ra formula and successfully summoned a certain existence and ate it.
The difference is that with that curse, every once in a while, 8 people will appear in the form of reincarnation, then awaken their memories, be devoured and die, and so on.
The curse lasts for hundreds of years. The reincarnated person will feel the call at a certain period of time, as if being driven forward by an invisible hand. By the time all memories are restored, life is about to enter the next reincarnation. .
"So, those 8 people, to a certain extent, have gained eternal life."
The expression on Benny's face was gloomy and melancholy: "It's better to say it's the curse of death than eternal life."
"If you are in a dark maze, and you accidentally discover a ray of light, and you are chasing that ray of light, you think it is the exit, but when you actually step in, you find that it is your cemetery, and you will still feel that eternal life is a gift. ?"
Joey shivered suddenly.
If there is no awakening memory, maybe it is really a gift.
The reality is just the opposite. That invisible hand will make you subconsciously pursue the truth. When you really know the truth, you may collapse.
At this moment, he seemed to understand why the eight people had increasingly different personalities, and sometimes even showed signs of going crazy. Perhaps it was because of the gradual recovery of their memories.
"Don't you hate those eight people?" Joey asked.
"Hate? Why hate?"
"If they hadn't eaten that thing"
Benny stared at Joey seriously: "Are you sure that the thing you summoned is really the Poseidon?"
"Uh" Joey was at a loss for words when asked this question: "Yeah, there's no way to prove it."
"Moreover, without them, the Poseidon Church would have been gone long ago. Without cutting-edge combat capabilities, it would be difficult to continue."
"The eight of them are actually a group of wretches, prisoners bound to eternal life."
Joey frowned and said, "You seem to know them very well."
"Of course, in order to summarize their failure, the Poseidon Church has been paying attention to each of their reincarnations. Unfortunately, they have not made any breakthrough progress for hundreds of years."
"You said that everything that happened in Port Lia was their fault?"
"Yes, not just here..." As he spoke, he paused and took a sip of tea before continuing: "The heart of Ghost Island was also taken away by them."
"What!" Benny, who was originally relatively calm, suddenly stood up and stared at Joey's face with cold eyes: "Say it again!"
Joey shrugged helplessly and replied word for word: "The heart was taken away by them."
"Impossible, absolutely impossible" Benny looked in disbelief.
"When they see the heart, it means they have recovered their memory. They cannot escape from the existence of the curse. Now they should start the next reincarnation."
In fact, Joey roughly guessed that the reason might be him, but he didn't dare to say this.
He just said: "The fact is that not only are they not dead now, but they have also taken their hearts out of the Ghost Island."
Benny clasped Joey's shoulders excitedly: "Tell me, you know where they are, right!"
His heart was of great importance and there was no room for any accidents. He had to take the things back as soon as possible.
"I don't know." Joey smiled bitterly and said, "Director, you think too highly of me. They are the ones who took the initiative to contact me."
"I'm just a small character." Joey tilted his head and said softly: "Well, in their words, I am a mascot."
Benny glanced at the changes in expression on Joey's face with a complex look, but found no hint of lies in it. Thinking of Joey's sequence, he sighed helplessly and let go of his hand.
"Let's get back to the topic." Benny's face became solemn at this moment: "What is the reason for your identity being exposed now?"
"It's very simple!" He stretched out a finger to calm down: "First, I don't believe them."
Then he stretched out a second finger: "Second, I don't believe you either."
It has never been Joey's style to place the initiative on others. Things like fate are best left in one's own hands.
"I point this out to you because I need your help for the next few things!"
Benny Hoyland looked at him with a half-smile: "Why do you think I will help you instead of getting rid of you!"
"No, you are wrong!" Joey shook his head and said slowly with a confident expression: "Whether you will help me or not depends mainly on the effort and reward."
"Oh" Benny held his chin and nodded with interest: "Let me see what chips you can give."
"A piece of news!"
"Hmph" Benny sneered: "Interesting, just one piece of news and you want to trade my life for it."
He raised his head and said with great pride: "Boy, maybe I should give you some knowledge about market prices."
"An ordinary peace officer, not a transcendent, his salary is five thousand alliance coins per month. If he hires a sequence 9 transcendent to work, the minimum salary is ten times the monthly salary of the peace officer, which is 50,000, and I am Sequence 6, the middle one, how much do you think is appropriate?”
The alliance currency is planned, printed and issued by the Alliance of Seven Gods. It is the currency in circulation in the mainland. There is currency depreciation in some areas, but the overall problem is not big.
In fact, there is one thing that Benny did not mention. Extraordinary people are very short of money, because magic potion formulas and preparation materials are often priced but not available.
Most of the transactions between extraordinary beings involve barter-for-thing.
Joey nodded confidently: "Trust me, you will be satisfied."
"This news is about your beliefs, which is why you cannot awaken the Poseidon"
Benny, who was still sitting upright, stood up with excitement:
"What did you say!"
While speaking, he also observed the surroundings vigilantly. He even forgot that he had already sealed the room with force.
Joey's courage to face Benny did not come from himself, but from a person, Nurmaimaiti Plato.
The last time I summoned Maimaiti through a rag doll, he also asked for some secrets.
For example, the extraordinary weapon 'Quenching' he brought out from Senegal.
I remember Maimaiti’s original words at that time were:
"These are the scales of that fish"
The words fish and scales reminded Joey of a huge creature, the guy who was fed to the Gate of the Abyss by Maimaiti. He had a fish head and a human body. Even if he died, the aura exuding from his body would make people afraid to look directly at him. .
Maimaiti also told him.
The owner of the scale 'Quenching' is called 'Dagon', and there are two people who hold the true authority of Poseidon.
This is also the reason why Poseidon is stronger than the Seven Gods.
When his thoughts returned to the present, Joey spoke unhurriedly:
"The real Poseidon is not Hydra. You cannot awaken it because the direction was wrong from the beginning."
"Boom~" Joey's words were like a muffled thunder exploding in Benny Hoyland's mind.
This completely overturned his world and left him speechless for a long time.
Joey was not in a hurry and drank tea quietly and waited.
It took about seven or eight minutes for Benny's face to regain its expression.
His eyes were cold, and Joey's words were undoubtedly a blasphemy against his faith.
The mood swing was too big, and I was shocked for a while. Now I came back to my senses and said in a bad tone: "If this is the information you said, I'm sorry, it's not enough to impress me."
"Don't worry." Joey waved his hand: "I know you won't believe it. This kind of secret is not accessible to ordinary people."
Since he decided to tell this matter, he had thought out the details in advance.
"Do you know why Poseidon believers are not getting any response now?"
Benny's eyes seemed to flash with a bright light, and he looked directly at Joey solemnly: "Do you know the reason?"
The first thing Joey said was just psychologically shocking, so the second thing was more realistic.
You must know that since the disappearance of Poseidon in the Second Age, believers can still get responses. This is why there are rumors that Poseidon only fell into a deep sleep and did not really die.
But not long ago, no one knew what happened, and believers received no response at all.
A mysterious smile appeared on Joey's lips: "The reason is simple, because He was caught."
The expression on Benny's face was stagnant, and then he laughed: "What are you talking about? Poseidon was arrested. Do you think I look like a child?"
"Who caught him, who is qualified, who has the courage?" He proudly held up his chest.
As a supporter of the Poseidon Church, even if the entire church is now in decline, it can only survive in the cracks of the Seven Gods Alliance.
But they never gave up on awakening Poseidon, because in the hearts of these believers, they all know that as long as Poseidon wakes up, they can turn over, and they have never doubted Poseidon's power.
Joey stood up silently, walked to the window, spread his hands, as if feeling the warmth of the sun.
"That is a great being who has returned from the past."
His voice was sonorous and powerful. He turned around and looked directly at Benny:
"When the stars return and darkness covers the earth, the old days will return."
"The light of our Lord has come to the world!"
At this moment, Joey is like a devout Christian.
